I purchased the GMAT Focus bundle of 3 with the goal of gaining practice on the quant side and determining to which areas I should pay more attention.
I've just completed the tests and quite frankly I'm baffled by them.
Generally speaking, if anyone has opinions about GMAC prep tools, I would like to know if they are indeed the best way to prepare as they're provided by the makers of the test. I've noticed when I google for answers that all the questions are posted from 3-4 years ago. Where can I find a bank of official questions people are posting from the past year?
My questions are as follows:
1. Both in the Official GMAT prep exams and in the GMAT focus exams I noticed that I can have more errors in one exam relative to another, but nonetheless my quant score is higher. If this is true, how is success measured? If I answer more questions correctly but score less, how can I aim to score higher (should I answer questions incorrectly on purpose). I even once ran out of time and left the last question unanswered, and this did not adversely affect my score (despite GMAC claiming to penalize unanswered Q's).
2. What do the percentages in the following charts reflect? Can someone help me interpret them? For example, my percentage of correct answers in the DS category is 66.7, and the chart notes that "excellent" is 99.38%, yet I received a most likely rating of 'excellent'. Not to mention- where are these figures coming from?!
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I've just completed the tests and quite frankly I'm baffled by them.
Generally speaking, if anyone has opinions about GMAC prep tools, I would like to know if they are indeed the best way to prepare as they're provided by the makers of the test. I've noticed when I google for answers that all the questions are posted from 3-4 years ago. Where can I find a bank of official questions people are posting from the past year?
My questions are as follows:
1. Both in the Official GMAT prep exams and in the GMAT focus exams I noticed that I can have more errors in one exam relative to another, but nonetheless my quant score is higher. If this is true, how is success measured? If I answer more questions correctly but score less, how can I aim to score higher (should I answer questions incorrectly on purpose). I even once ran out of time and left the last question unanswered, and this did not adversely affect my score (despite GMAC claiming to penalize unanswered Q's).
2. What do the percentages in the following charts reflect? Can someone help me interpret them? For example, my percentage of correct answers in the DS category is 66.7, and the chart notes that "excellent" is 99.38%, yet I received a most likely rating of 'excellent'. Not to mention- where are these figures coming from?!
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